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How to use scrunch in a sentence

11 example sentences · verb, noun

Scrunch means to crumple and squeeze to make more compact. Example: “He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.”

Examples of scrunch by meaning

verbTo crumple and squeeze to make more compact.

  • He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.

verbTo contract the muscles of one's face so as to draw their facial features together, out of pain, discomfort...

  • He scrunched his face at his wife's confounding request.

nounA crunching noise.

  • Instead, there was a sudden scrunch of iron, a splintering of wood, and the door swung loosely open.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

More sentences with scrunch

  • The boy made a life-sized dummy of himself by stuffing scrunched- up newspapers into some old pyjamas.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry life-sized
  • The two balls of scrunched paper in the waste bin began, creakingly, to unscrunch.2016, Adam Roberts, chapter 1, in The Thing Itself, →ISBN. From the entry unscrunch
  • The púca scrunched up his face in puzzlement and rubbed his bald head.1995, Risa Aratyr, Hunter of the Light, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry geis
  • You were wet and cold and all slumbery.” “Slumbery?” Susannah scrunched her nose at the sound of the word.2014, Suzanne Hoos, Only Time Will Tell. From the entry slumbery
  • Her lips are scrunched together as if someone pumped collagen and lemon juice in them at the same time.2014, P. J. Day, King's Blood, page 11. From the entry duckface
  • There was quite a kerfuffly noise when the paper went through the door, a bit like something being scrunched or ripped.2011, Anna Wilson, Kitten Kaboodle. From the entry kerfuffly
  • My feet slithered and scrunched on stranded things.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck. From the entry belch
  • He’s wearing a suit and a multibuttoned vest that scrunches the top of his tie, making it poke out of his shirt like an old-fashioned cravat.2009 September 27, Arthur Krystal, “When Writers Speak”, in New York Times. From the entry multibuttoned

Meaning of scrunch

  1. verb To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
  2. verb To contract the muscles of one's face so as to draw their facial features together, out of pain, discomfort, uncertainty, etc.
  3. noun A crunching noise.

Full definition of scrunch

Questions about scrunch in a sentence

How do you use scrunch in a sentence?
Scrunch is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He scrunched the paper into a ball and threw it at the whistling girl.”
What is a short sentence with scrunch?
“My feet slithered and scrunched on stranded things.”
What does scrunch mean?
Scrunch means to crumple and squeeze to make more compact.

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